Quotes About Adversity

The fire of my burning past sent odd shadows snaking ahead of us as we made our way into the storm's resurgence.

Se tudo o que eu tivesse feito na vida fosse ter nascido e ser descoberto, ainda assim teria deixado uma marca em toda aquela terra, para todo sempre. Cresci sem pai nem mãe, numa corte onde todos me conheciam como um divisor de águas. E um divisor de águas eu me tornei.

You'll do well, if you don't mire in self-pity. Self-pity only gets you more of the same.

It seems a fine tale, to hear you tell it that way, with none of the dirt and pain and misfortune." "It is a fine tale, even with the dirt and pain and misfortune.

Lost a fight?' he'd asked, still out of breath. 'The fight isn't over until you win it

complaints about

Idle hands on a boat made for troubles all around.

make." He bit off a chunk of the dry meat

For a time I tried to bolster myself with anger, but my despair was too clammy and dark a thing for anger's flames to overcome.

To finally confront the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, "I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still I live. And I will go on living.

One cannot be dashed to the earth unless one is lifted first, and I learned to avoid hope.

Better. I think. That is, some hurts have lessened, but the ones that remain are still sharp enough that I don't know if I'm better or just becoming more adept at ignoring pain.

Cold isn't so bad. Cold can only kill you if you stand still. Just keep moving.

The pack does not die if the cub survives. Be a wolf, my brother. Things are clearer so.

They were petty and selfish." "They were miserable and hungry and helpless. I don't think I've ever met anyone who was miserable, hungry and helpless who was not also petty and selfish. The situation brings out the worst in everyone.

I know you think it slatternly, the way I am with men. But once you have been forced, it is … different. Ever after. I say to myself, well, I know that it can happen to me at any time. So this way, at least I decide with whom and when. There will never be children for me, and hence there will never be a permanent man. So why should not I take my pick of what I can have?

Hope, dashed too often, becomes the enemy. I heard her words and they did not make my heart leap with gladness. Instead I felt hot anger.

Quando o único conforto que se pode obter é o sono, aceita-o. Deixar-te-á mais bem preparado para o que quer que venha em seguida.

Live with it. Many folk have to live with worse. Most of the time you're fine. You're not blind. You're not paralyzed. You've your wits, still. Stop defining yourself by what you can't do. Why don't you consider what you didn't lose?

You are different, Bee. It will make some parts of your life very difficult. But if you always fall back on your differences to explain everything you dislike about the world, you will fall into self-pity." p. 293 Fitz to Bee

To confront finally the worst there is, to look it squarely in the face and say, 'I know you. You have hurt me, almost to death, but still, I live. And I will go on living.

Amazing what folk will take comfort in when there's nothing else to hold on to.

Especially then," she replied sweetly. "That's how it's done, Trell. You break your heart against this stony world. You fling yourself at it, on the side of good, and you do not ask the cost.

Were there not times when death would have been easier and less painful than life?" His words were shards of ice in my belly, but I am nothing if not stubborn. "Well. And when is that ever not true?